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The Shirley Jackson Society @sjsociety.bsky.social · 9d

🤡New Shirely Jackson Studies CFP!!!🎃 Submit your abstract for Vol. 4, Issue 1, "Jackson and Animality" by December 15th!

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Call for Submissions - Shirley Jackson Studies

Call for Proposals for Vol. 4, Issue 1--Jackson & Animality [deadline Dec. 15, 2025] Jonas, Merricat’s feline companion in We Have Always Lived in the Castle, is possibly the most recognizable animal ...

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 13d

Reasons to Teach High School English when the World is on Fire

Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.

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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 16d

Anti-Zionism is antisemitism, game 2 of the Yankees v. Red Sox Wild Card series on Yom Kippur is antisemitism, all deadlines this week are antisemitism.

Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 21d

That first sin after tashlich feels like an impulse purchase when you've just paid your credit card bill, I'll face that next cycle

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28d

We live in a country where the president can order a comedian to be yanked off TV. What I describe is not a democracy.

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The Shirley Jackson Society @sjsociety.bsky.social · Sep 15

Interested in joining an SSAG roundtable on Shirley Jackson's The Witchcraft of Salem Village this March? Email [email protected] with a few sentences on what you'd like to talk about by next Monday, 9/22! ~5 minute presentations followed by discussion.

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American Nightmares II: Return to Salem – Society for the Study of the American Gothic

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Sep 7

its 2026. the only legal jobs are ICE agent, AI server farm maintenance, and beef tallow renderer

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature” (1836)

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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · Aug 31

Hurting a poet is soo funny like throwing free sacks of flour at a baker

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Sometimes on campus you accidentally walk by a Law school and the professor is writing like "laws = real" on the board and everyone is taking notes like its actual school

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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · Aug 21

I love my job it is my dream job I would have done unspeakable things for it but changing a schedule from MTRF-->MWF is absolute hell

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · Aug 15

A t shirt that says don't bully me I'll come

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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · Aug 15

Art.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Aug 6

*Academics in early August

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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · Aug 5

On the latest @craftworkpod.bsky.social episode, @miriamricher.bsky.social & I had a great conversation with @emilyabanks.bsky.social about creative process, craft, and her amazing poetry collection, Mother Water.

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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · Aug 4

I loved chatting with Miriam and Mike on @craftworkpod.bsky.social!

Craftwork Podcast @craftworkpod.bsky.social · Aug 4

Listen to our latest episode!

We chat with Emily Banks about posthumous publications, linguistic allergies, the atomic nuts and bolts of imagery, and so much more.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 30

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · Jul 18

ngl he kind of went off with "Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret"

Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · Jul 17

I'm still seeking another panelist for Shirley Jackson: Memory and Forgetting at PAMLA in November! Submit below or let me know if you're interested.

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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · Jul 5

I'm just so confused on what other context you'd hear Shylock used in.

Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · Jul 5

Trump makes an antisemitic comment and then pretends he didn’t know what he was saying.

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Trump says he had ‘never heard’ Shylock as an anti-semitic term after using it at rally | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump said early Friday that he wasn’t aware that some people view the word “Shylock” as antisemitic after using the term during a rally to decry amoral money lenders.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jul 5

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

—The Declaration of Independence

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daryl "treehouse of hormones" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · Jun 30

better lyrics than katy perry

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · Jun 26

To a firework, your body is sentient gelatin. Nothing more. Nothing less. Remember that and use fireworks safely this July 4th.

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The Shirley Jackson Society @sjsociety.bsky.social · Jun 30

last day to submit an abstract for PAMLA! memory and forgetting!

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4 more days to submit!

The Shirley Jackson Society @sjsociety.bsky.social · Jun 21

Don't forget! Abstracts for our PAMLA 2025 panel, "Shirley Jackson: Memory and Forgetting," are due June 30th.

I hope some of you will join us November 20th-23d in San Francisco. 🌉🦭🌞

Follow this link to submit your proposal: pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19720

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The Shirley Jackson Society @sjsociety.bsky.social · Jun 21

Don't forget! Abstracts for our PAMLA 2025 panel, "Shirley Jackson: Memory and Forgetting," are due June 30th.

I hope some of you will join us November 20th-23d in San Francisco. 🌉🦭🌞

Follow this link to submit your proposal: pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19720

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